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Having the inside front wheel in the air is a common occurrence on a 911 being driven hard. It's more pronounced if the suspension is on the softer side.

As other have said above, don't try to fix this by adjusting your swaybars. You want to adjust swaybars to tune oversteer/understeer, not how much air your inside front tire has.

That said, more traction in the rear (wider rear tires, possibly more camber, etc.) would allow you to dial in more roll stiffness in the back, which would plant that inside front tire, while keeping the car balanced from an understeer/oversteer perspective.

My personal choice on an earlier car would be to keep 16" wheels on an otherwise stockish car. Larger diameter wheels usually means larger diameter tires too, and stock suspension is already challenged from a geometry perspective when the car is lowered. Larger diameter wheels/tires makes this worse (or your car will sit higher off the ground, which isn't ideal either). This is ones of the reasons the club racer crowd in the stock classes run 15" wheels. They also give you better effective gearing.

Scott
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